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The Washington Post is gutting its books coverage – Literary Hub

The Washington Post is gutting its books coverage.

By Brittany Allen, February 4, 2026

Earlier today, Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post laid off hundreds of its employees, in what one staffer called “an absolute bloodbath.”

As The Guardian reported this morning, editor-in-chief Matt Murray told his masthead that the paper was due for a “strategic reset.” Citing flagging subscriptions and grim growth, Murray announced that the Post would be laying off a third of its workforce, and sundowning several popular sections—including the sports desk, the daily news podcast, most of the “international reporting operation,” some local coverage, and the books desk.

Going forward, the paper will pivot to prioritizing news concerning “national security,” and topics like science, health, medicine, technology, climate and business.

The Post’s book coverage—chiefly via the beloved Book World section—has long been a gold standard in the industry. Critics like John Williams, Becca Rothfeld, Jacob Brogan, Michael Dirda, and Ron Charles have shaped the literary landscape. For decades, in some cases.

Book World originated in the aftermath of Watergate. In a fond 2022 reflection, editor Dirda described the section’s early days, during which he nurtured and commissioned many literary greats—like the polymath Guy Davenport, the novelist Angela Carter, and David Remnick, who’d go on to edit The New Yorker.

It’s critical voices like these who will be first affected by the section’s sunsetting. But authors and publishers should also worry about what the end of Book World means for national press.

At least Charles, who learned of his firing while eating “eating one of the two remaining Harry & David pears that the Post sent to celebrate [his] 20th anniversary at the paper,” is determined not to go gentle. He is starting a Substack.

In his first missive to readers, the unleashed critic quipped: “Honestly, the worst aspect of this impoverishing, family-wrecking, confidence-crushing ordeal is that it will inspire David Brooks to write an essay about the hubris of American media.”

Meanwhile, the paper’s long term strategy remains unclear. As the Times reported, the Post is “far from alone” in the battle to stay relevant in a downward-trending media ecosystem whose traffic is increasingly threatened by AI summaries. But it is possibly the only outlet where the bottom line is meaningless, given the owner is richer than Satan.

Bezos, whose personal wealth is estimated at $261 billion, could not be reached for comment about any of the cuts his team architected.

Post employees who have been laid off will continue to be on staff through mid-April, though “they will not be required to work.” Health insurance coverage will continue for six months.

A union-led protest to denounce the cuts is scheduled for tomorrow.

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The Washington Post is gutting its books coverage – Literary Hub

The Washington Post is gutting its books coverage.

By Brittany Allen, February 4, 2026

Earlier today, Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post laid off hundreds of its employees, in what one staffer called “an absolute bloodbath.”

As The Guardian reported this morning, editor-in-chief Matt Murray told his masthead that the paper was due for a “strategic reset.” Citing flagging subscriptions and grim growth, Murray announced that the Post would be laying off a third of its workforce, and sundowning several popular sections—including the sports desk, the daily news podcast, most of the “international reporting operation,” some local coverage, and the books desk.

Going forward, the paper will pivot to prioritizing news concerning “national security,” and topics like science, health, medicine, technology, climate and business.

The Post’s book coverage—chiefly via the beloved Book World section—has long been a gold standard in the industry. Critics like John Williams, Becca Rothfeld, Jacob Brogan, Michael Dirda, and Ron Charles have shaped the literary landscape. For decades, in some cases.

Book World originated in the aftermath of Watergate. In a fond 2022 reflection, editor Dirda described the section’s early days, during which he nurtured and commissioned many literary greats—like the polymath Guy Davenport, the novelist Angela Carter, and David Remnick, who’d go on to edit The New Yorker.

It’s critical voices like these who will be first affected by the section’s sunsetting. But authors and publishers should also worry about what the end of Book World means for national press.

At least Charles, who learned of his firing while eating “eating one of the two remaining Harry & David pears that the Post sent to celebrate [his] 20th anniversary at the paper,” is determined not to go gentle. He is starting a Substack.

In his first missive to readers, the unleashed critic quipped: “Honestly, the worst aspect of this impoverishing, family-wrecking, confidence-crushing ordeal is that it will inspire David Brooks to write an essay about the hubris of American media.”

Meanwhile, the paper’s long term strategy remains unclear. As the Times reported, the Post is “far from alone” in the battle to stay relevant in a downward-trending media ecosystem whose traffic is increasingly threatened by AI summaries. But it is possibly the only outlet where the bottom line is meaningless, given the owner is richer than Satan.

Bezos, whose personal wealth is estimated at $261 billion, could not be reached for comment about any of the cuts his team architected.

Post employees who have been laid off will continue to be on staff through mid-April, though “they will not be required to work.” Health insurance coverage will continue for six months.

A union-led protest to denounce the cuts is scheduled for tomorrow.

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Hubo un tiempo en que se creyó que #internet podía ser una plataforma para la #literatura. Pero esa #idea parece haber caído en desgracia. ¿Qué sucedió?
Escribí del asunto (y otros aledaños) en #LiteralMagazine.
https://literalmagazine.com/autopsias-de-la-escritura-en-linea/

#EscrituraCreativa #Twitter #X #tuiteratura #LiteraturaMexicana #LiteraryHub #polémica #PolémicasLiterarias #LaTempestad

🎩Literary Hub attempts to resuscitate Robert Louis Stevenson with a "critique" that's less about his life and more about selling hats. 🤦‍♂️Imagine thinking you can unlock the secrets to life and death through endless podcast prattle and style advice! 📚🔄
https://lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/ #LiteraryHub #RobertLouisStevenson #PodcastCritique #StyleAdvice #Resuscitation #HackerNews #ngated

In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times – Literary Hub

– The Keynote address at the American Librarian’s Association annual convention, June 28th, 2025

Sarah Weinman

Sarah Weinman is the author of three nonfiction books: The Real Lolita, Scoundrel, and Without Consent (Ecco, November 2025). She is also the editor of several anthologies, most recently Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning. Weinman writes the Crime & Mystery column for the New York Times Book Review and lives in New York City.

Sarah Weinman on the Awesome Responsibility of the Seekers and Keepers of Truth

By Sarah Weinman, November 3, 2025

Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day.

And without libraries, my work would simply not exist.

I was a child who read books. There’s a picture of me, not quite a year old, in a blue sailor suit and a red ribbon tied around my neck, staring avidly at a picture book. I couldn’t have been reading yet—that wouldn’t happen until I was close to three, still plenty precocious—but the devotion was already there, the calling always present. I would always prefer reading to pretty much anything, whether it was practicing piano, doing homework, playing sports, and chores.

Books were everywhere as I grew up, and I know how fortunate I was. All around the house, because my parents and older brother were avid readers, too. In the sprawling home of my great-uncle, who spent many years as a sales representative for Harper & Row—before it was absorbed into HarperCollins, now my own publisher—and the duplex townhouses of my grandparents.

Going to the library was special, though. The elementary and high school ones, staffed by people who understood what books meant to kids because they’d never lost sight of what books meant to them. The local branch, a few minutes’ drive from my home, where I borrowed countless books at every age and had my first formative experience with microfilm—and no matter how many times I have used it, I still need to ask a librarian for help. The flagship location in my hometown, with its brutalist architecture, piles of newspapers threatening to burst out of the shelves, and the abundance of books in every genre—particularly crime fiction, my first and still greatest love.

The university one, where not only could I request any book I needed for research—for class, and also my own—but I discovered the almighty power of the Lexis-Nexis database. And, when I moved to New York more than two decades ago, the magisterial 42nd Street Public Library, those twin lions beckoning visitors to climb up the stairs and partake of its treasures.

The wonder and thrill of the library hasn’t gone away for me, not at all, but it has certainly evolved in adulthood. I have come to know so many archive repositories, sifting through collections of authors, editors, and other luminaries as part of my research for three nonfiction books, several anthologies, and other journalism projects. Some of the institutions whose work I have benefited from enormously, visiting in person or requesting digital reproductions, include the Sterling Library at Yale University; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the New-York Historical; city and state archives in New Jersey, Oregon, Maryland, New York, and right here in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.

The wonder and thrill of the library hasn’t gone away for me, not at all, but it has certainly evolved in adulthood.

And it was at Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library in early 2016 that I experienced one of the most transcendent experiences of my working life. I’d arrived to look at a selection of letters by the book editor and translator Sophie Wilkins, and what I thought would be anodyne correspondence between an editor and her author—the convicted murderer Edgar Smith—turned out to be anything but, altering the scope and trajectory of the project that would become my second book, Scoundrel. The excitement I felt at reading what perhaps three others—Sophie, Edgar, and the librarian cataloging the material—that I could not express in public, but could convey in book form, was like nothing I’d ever experienced.

Libraries and archives hold so much knowledge within their sacred confines. I will never lose sight of the awesome responsibility for those tasked with curating, maintaining, and presenting the information so that researchers and authors like me can make meaning of these documents. The librarian is a seeker and keeper of truth, and that makes her a dangerous figure in the eyes of those who fear the fullest, most comprehensive, and most uncomfortable truths emerging.

The librarian is a seeker and keeper of truth, and that makes her a dangerous figure in the eyes of those who fear the fullest, most comprehensive, and most uncomfortable truths emerging.

This is as precarious a moment as I’ve experienced in my own lifetime. Book bans accelerating at a pace that beggars belief. The unjust firing of Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress. The onrush to embrace generative AI without considering the consequences. And just yesterday, a terrible Supreme Court ruling that threatens to upend what books are taught in schools and available in their libraries.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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#Books #CarlaHayden #ChildrenReading #CurrentEvents #DangerousTimes #History #Librarian #LibrarianOfCongress #Librarians #LiteraryHub #News #TaughtInSchools

When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future – Literary Hub

When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future

Maris Kreizman on the Dangers of the AI Content Churn

By Maris Kreizman, November 6, 2025

Maris Kreizman

Maris Kreizman hosted the literary podcast, The Maris Review, for four years. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The New Republic, and more. Her essay collection, I Want to Burn This Place Down, is forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins.

When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a crisis. In August it was reported that reading for pleasure has declined by 40 percent over the last 20 years. But pleasure reading has been on a decline for ages: the Victrola, then the talkies, then TV and Nintendo and the internet, have all cut into our reading time. Yet still, people continue to read.

Which is why I felt a different kind of existential dread for the industry last week when I came across a Slate article entitled “The Case for Whole Books” by Dan Sinykin and Joanna Winant. As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school. Last year I wrote about the way that the tech industry has been trying to transform books into easily uploadable Blinkist-style digests, but I don’t think I understood that children are also being fed less than enriching knowledge pellets.

In that same week a piece for The Baffler by Noah McCormack called “We Used to Read Things in This Country” contained a passage that stopped me in my tracks: “It is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. As primary and secondary schools prepare to push AI on students, higher-education funding is basically being eliminated.”

Maybe this is another form of catastrophizing. People are still buying books, young and older readers alike. Certainly there are some high schools that are still assigning and engaging with The Great Gatsby in full. But with the rise of Big Tech and AI I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that our values as a society appear to be changing for the worse.

We have more content than ever, but fewer opportunities for art and artists to thrive.

When I was in college in the late 1990s I was told time and time again that employers of all sorts love a job candidate with a degree in the humanities because a liberal arts education fosters critical thinking skills, the ability to learn. Not everyone has to be a lifelong reader of books, certainly, but studying them, I thought, set people up to be strong communicators and critical thinkers. It’s devastating to look at the job market and see the denigration of so many qualities that I always thought were non-negotiable: reading and writing skills, human interaction, and creativity overall.

At the risk of moving into old man yelling at cloud territory, I grew up with a subscription to Entertainment Weekly. I took it as a given that its subjects—books and music and film and theater and yes, even TV—enrich our lives. In fact, I wrote a book about the interconnection between high and low(er) forms of popular culture and how we’re all better for it. Now Entertainment Weekly exists as a scaled-down website, and media spaces for cultural criticism continue to dwindle.

 Editor’s Note: Referred by Library Link of the Day
http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/  (archive, rss, subscribe options)

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#AI #AmericanSociety #BigTech #Books #ContentChurn #DevalueArt #DevalueBooks #Future #LiteraryHub #MarisKreizman #society #TheFuture #WeUsedToRead

In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times – Literary Hub

In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times

Sarah Weinman on the Awesome Responsibility of the Seekers and Keepers of Truth

By Sarah Weinman,November 3, 2025

Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day.

And without libraries, my work would simply not exist.

I was a child who read books. There’s a picture of me, not quite a year old, in a blue sailor suit and a red ribbon tied around my neck, staring avidly at a picture book. I couldn’t have been reading yet—that wouldn’t happen until I was close to three, still plenty precocious—but the devotion was already there, the calling always present. I would always prefer reading to pretty much anything, whether it was practicing piano, doing homework, playing sports, and chores.

Books were everywhere as I grew up, and I know how fortunate I was. All around the house, because my parents and older brother were avid readers, too. In the sprawling home of my great-uncle, who spent many years as a sales representative for Harper & Row—before it was absorbed into HarperCollins, now my own publisher—and the duplex townhouses of my grandparents.

Going to the library was special, though. The elementary and high school ones, staffed by people who understood what books meant to kids because they’d never lost sight of what books meant to them. The local branch, a few minutes’ drive from my home, where I borrowed countless books at every age and had my first formative experience with microfilm—and no matter how many times I have used it, I still need to ask a librarian for help. The flagship location in my hometown, with its brutalist architecture, piles of newspapers threatening to burst out of the shelves, and the abundance of books in every genre—particularly crime fiction, my first and still greatest love.

The university one, where not only could I request any book I needed for research—for class, and also my own—but I discovered the almighty power of the Lexis-Nexis database. And, when I moved to New York more than two decades ago, the magisterial 42nd Street Public Library, those twin lions beckoning visitors to climb up the stairs and partake of its treasures.

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#History #Librarians #Libraries #LiteraryHub #Memories #News #PublicLibraries #UniversityLibraries #WorkingAsLibrarian

„Literary Hub »Bob Dylan’s Superpower is That He Doesn’t Get Embarrassed«“
https://lithub.com/bob-dylans-superpower-is-that-he-doesnt-get-embarrassed/

#bobdylan #LiteraryHub

I have never understood why so many apps exist for websites but Cory Doctorow explains that the reason is to avoid regulation:

https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/

#lithub #literaryhub #corydoctorow #tech #technology #regulation #monopoly #trust #antitrust #smartphones #cartels #oligarchy #scams

Literary Hub – How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025

How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025

What We Can All Learn From the Courage of Charter 77

By Jonny Diamond, October 10, 2025

The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in the concentration camp at Terezin as a boy), and the post-1968 repression of the Soviet regime.

Unlike his more famous literary compatriots, Milan Kundera and Josef Skvorecky, Klima stuck around in Czechoslovakia, despite being forbidden from publishing for 20 years. For two decades Klima was consigned primarily to menial work, as a street sweeper, bricklayer, orderly… But he kept writing. And he kept resisting, through the publication of literary samizdat (his own and others), organizing clandestine salons, and helping to disseminate Charter 77, an artists’ manifesto named for the year it was written.

Editor’s Note: Charter 77 appended below.

The main authors behind Charter 77—Václav Havel, Jan Patočka, and Pavel Kohout, who were responding to the Communist government’s crackdown on free expression—generated its moral (and to some extent legal) authority by citing two UN human rights covenants signed by the Czechoslovak government in 1968, in the lead up to the so-called Prague Spring. [Spoiler: the Russians didn’t approve, sent tanks into Prague, and crushed any hope of a freer society].

The Communist regime quickly made it a crime to distribute copies of Charter 77, calling it “an anti-state, anti-socialist, and demagogic, abusive piece of writing,” and deeming its signatories to be “traitors and renegades” and “agents of imperialism.” As for how they saw themselves, the organizers behind Charter 77 were very clear about being nothing more than an ad hoc confederation of likeminded people, and certainly not an opposition party. In their own words, they were a “loose, informal, and open association of people . . . united by the will to strive individually and collectively for respect for human and civil rights in our country and throughout the world.” (So, more of a shared set of beliefs than a formal organization, like, you know, antifa.)

Why is a 50-year-old writers’ manifesto worth thinking about now? First of all, the aforementioned human rights covenants, cited at length in the charter, map neatly over what we still like to think of as western democratic ideals of free expression and individual liberty. And just as Charter 77 decries the state crack-down on those ideals in 1970s Czechoslovakia, we too can cite many and obvious authoritarian crimes from the Trump administration circa 2025.

From government officials menacing late-night comedians to masked thugs landing helicopters on apartment buildings, from Democratic officials threatened with jail time by the president to the brazen flouting of the rule of law, America’s decades-long drift into authoritarianism has sped up dramatically in the last nine months. We are in the middle of an anti-democratic sea-change, and as each week passes the likes of Stephen Miller grow bolder in flouting their fascist inclinations.

But it’s never too late to fight for basic human freedoms, for the right to be who you are and to say what you want, the right to not go hungry or get shot at school or lose everything because you get sick. Luckily, Charter 77—which is but one of countless historical examples of courage in the face of tyranny—offers a clear blueprint for how we might respond to the Trump administration’s attacks on free expression and the rule of law:

With regard to the targeting of pro-Palestinian ideas on college campuses:

The right to freedom of expression, for example, guaranteed by Article 19 of the first-mentioned covenant, is in our case purely illusory. Tens of thousands of our citizens are prevented from working in their own fields for the sole reason that they hold views differing from official ones, and are discriminated against and harassed in all kinds of ways by the authorities and public organizations.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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#Authoritarianism #Charter77 #Communism #Czechoslovakia #DonaldTrump #Facism #GOP #Ice #Injustice #IvanKlima #LiteraryHub #PalestinianRights #Republicans #StephenMiller

When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis – Literary Hub

When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis

Christopher C. Gorham on Art Theft and Artistic Solidarity in Occupied France

By Christopher C. Gorham, September 29, 2025

After subduing Paris in the summer of 1940, Adolf Hitler launched “a second blitzkrieg,” in the words of scholar Frederic Spotts, “with the intention of making Germany as supreme culturally as it was militarily.” On one front of this offensive was the attempt to erase the rich and complex cultural life found in the French capital city. Two thousand titles deemed offensive to the Nazi regime were removed from its libraries: histories; biographies; classics like All Quiet on the Western Front; works by the Communist poet Louis Aragon; and by Jews, including Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and Thomas Mann. Writers Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Georges Simenon were among those who faced censorship. “Politically,” complained the feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir, “we found ourselves reduced to a position of impotence.” 

Before a gallery could mount a show, approval was required from the German Propaganda-Abteilung, installed in offices on Avenue des Champs-Elysées. A referat from the bureau would then attend the live show to act as a spy, ensuring compliance. As if to prove the magnificent treasures within Paris now belonged to the German dictator, the statue of Great War French hero General Mangin—which outraged the Führer—was destroyed.

The relationship between Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso had, in part, been shaped by war.

A simultaneous assault was waged on private art collections and public museums. Nazi bureaucrats entered each bank and inventoried the contents of safes, strongrooms, and vaults. Once cataloged, items were confiscated with typical Teutonic efficiency and sent to Germany or liquidated for Hitler’s war effort. Foreign stocks and bonds, precious metals, and fine jewelry were of particular interest to the Germans. Valuable paintings looted mainly from prominent French Jewish families and characterized as “ownerless” were warehoused in the German Embassy, the Musée de Louvre, and the Jeu de Paume. By 1944, the Special Staff for Pictorial Art could gloat over 21,903 stolen artworks, including masterpieces by Gainsborough, Goya, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Velázquez, and Vermeer. “This collection can compare with those of the finest European museums. It includes many works of the foremost French masters, who up to now have been only inadequately represented in the best German museums.”

Some French cultural treasures remained beyond the reach of the Germans. Nearly a year had passed since national Museum Director Jacques Jaujard ordered priceless artworks and objets crated and carried away. At Loc-Dieu Abbey, seventy-five miles north of Toulouse, the local curator uncrated the seventeenth-century paintings of Nicholas Poussins to check on their condition. A group of children and farmers approached the paintings, which were set against haystacks in the late-summer sun. One of the children began to clap; then all of them; the farmers tossed their spades to the ground and joined in. “Follow me,” said the curator, overcome with emotion. He took them inside the abbey, where they stood before a simple wooden crate with three red dots and the words “Musée Nationale.” He lifted the lid to reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

From Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi-Occupied France by Christopher C. Gorham. Copyright © 2025. Reprinted with permission from Kensington Books.

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#2025 #Education #France #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #LiteraryHub #Matisse #Nazis #Paintings #Picasso #Reading #Resistance #WorldWarII

📚🥋 In a gripping saga of martial arts #mythology, Literary Hub serves up a deep dive into the riveting tale of Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's legendary #training sessions. Because if there's anything the world needed, it's another overanalyzed piece about two famous guys doing stuff together, right? 😏
https://lithub.com/when-bruce-lee-trained-with-kareem-abdul-jabbar/ #martialarts #BruceLee #KareemAbdulJabbar #LiteraryHub #HackerNews #ngated

Buon Appetito: A Reading List on Italian Food

I came to this topic as an eater first. My partner and I fell in love through food. We…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italianfood #AdamLeithGollner #CAW #eater #FinancialTimes #GrubStreet #Italia #Italian #italiancuisine #ItalianFood #italiano #italy #JayaSaxena #JohnLast #LiteraryHub #longreads #MariannaGiusti #Noema #RachelHandler #saveur #traditionalitalianfood
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2235737/buon-appetito-a-reading-list-on-italian-food/

Buon Appetito: A Reading List on Italian Food https://www.diningandcooking.com/2235737/buon-appetito-a-reading-list-on-italian-food/ #AdamLeithGollner #CAW #eater #FinancialTimes #GrubStreet #Italia #Italian #ItalianCuisine #ItalianFood #italiano #italy #JayaSaxena #JohnLast #LiteraryHub #longreads #MariannaGiusti #Noema #RachelHandler #saveur #TraditionalItalianFood

Remembering Translator and Author Tim Mohr

The award-winning German-to-English translator and author Tim Mohr is dead at age 55.
The post Remembering Translator and Author Tim Mohr appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/remembering-translator-and-author-tim-mohr/

#EuropaEditions #FestivalNeueLiteratur #FrankfurtBookFair #Germany #LiteraryHub
@indieauthors

https://lithub.com/you-are-being-lied-to-about-gaza-solidarity-camps-by-university-presidents-mainstream-media-and-politicians/

#LiteraryHub

You Are Being Lied to About #GazaSolidarityCamps by University presidents, #MainstreamMedia, and Politicians

What Steven W.Thrasher saw on College Campuses

by #StevenWThrasher 10 may 2024

#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸 #SupportStudentsAndFacultyforPalestine
#ProtestIsNOTACrime

from #LiteraryHub
Refaat Alareer’s daughter and grandchild have been killed in an #Israeli airstrike

[very touching, sad article that gives background on #RefaatAlareer and his family]

Photo is from an Encampment for #Gaza at Univ. of Michigan - April 25.

#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #Palestine #StopGazaGenocide #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #PalestinianLivesMatter #EndTheOccupation #Israel #StopArmingIsrael
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://lithub.com/refaat-alareers-daughter-and-grandchild-have-been-killed-in-an-israeli-airstrike/

The Shortest Night is a nice essay on the #LiteraryHub platform by #DortheNors, who spent a year living on Denmark’s North Sea coast for her book A Line in the World.

https://lithub.com/dorthe-nors-spends-the-shortest-night-of-the-year-on-denmarks-north-sea-coast/

This Year’s University Press Week Highlights Work on Race, Religion, War, and More, including UNC Press’s 2022 centennial anniversary #UNCP100📖🎉
https://lithub.com/this-years-university-press-week-highlights-work-on-race-religion-war-and-more/ via #LitHub #LiteraryHub

#UPWeek